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Boston Celtics: Player of the Week — Daniel Theis

At 6-8, 245 pounds, the Boston Celtics were very intrigued by the versatile German big-man of Daniel Theis.

Prior to the German product entering the NBA and joining the Boston Celtics in 2017, he was already a four-time All Star and earned three German League Championships. The dude is simply a winner.

As many German born players do, Theis was part of his country’s youth league and eventually rose to join the highest level of professional basketball in Germany and joined Basketball Bundesliga.

Theis would average 9.6 points and 4.6 rebounds per game for Brose Bamberg, while impressively shooting 41 percent of his 3-point attempts and 64.